Microsoft Antispyware Beta review
Just in case you thought This product is a real beta (meaning it is still tested), I can tell you that this product has already been sold for a while and all that Microsoft is doing to it is making it slower. During the first start, its splashscreen was drawn for a while inside a window, although it ran on my 2.8 GHz Prescott. That reminded me of .Net framework.
Then I got two alerts which were really hard to understand for me. From the log, I’ve learned that a spyware alert was triggered by the fact that I had auto-logon activated. I think Joe Average User would really jump on the "Fix" button, getting on the next reboot a nice password prompt and, with a bit of luck, a really locked machine.
Then, I scanned the system and I learned that RealVNC and WinPCap are spyware carriers.
A quick visit to the program installation folder reveals a license for InfoZip. Gosh, they were in such a rush they forgot to switch to CAB compression.
I really have to uninstall this thing. Just stick to the free Ad-Aware.